The calm from the Emirates airline pilot and controllers at New York’s JFK certainly must belie what is going through their heads as they are told to return to the gate. The reason was that the suspect in the unsuccessful Times Square bombing was on board and federal authorities were about to arrest him.
Below is the conversation as it took place prior to the arrest of Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistani native who had only been granted U.S. citizenship during the past year. The tape is via LiveATC.net, on which live air traffic control communications can be heard from certain world airports.
Of course, the Rightists are already mealy-mouthing the arrest and the fact Shahzad was read his Miranda rights. It’s something I suspected would begin but still, can’t they find something meaningful to debate?
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